All Frederick William Robertson Quotes
- You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens… Act
- However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long… Anything Left
- In these two things the greatness of man consists, to have God dwelling in us as to impart His character to us, and to have… Assurance
- This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the… Earnest
- No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves. Effort
- To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Belief
- To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity. Christian
- Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked. Anchor
- ... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit… All
- What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement ... and the manly and wise way is to look your disadvantages in the… Arrangement
- The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize… Across
- Poetry creates life; Science dissects death. Creates
- There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. Deserve
- A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers… Always Wonderful
- Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated. Child
- The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we… Become Strong
- By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human… Atoning
- It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which… Becomes
- The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. Accurately
- The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds. Aim
- He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already. Alone
- Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. Bettered
- Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life… Ago
- The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. Aim
- Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits. Creatures